My home state, Ohio, has not only become ground zero for the presidential campaign, it’s also become ground zero for vote fraud.
A federal judge ruled that Ohio’s Democratic Secretary of State, “Jennifer Brunner is breaking federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent.” And this is the state where the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a left-wing organization for which Obama once worked, hounded a Cleveland pizza worker to register to vote multiple times. The group presses “voters already registered to vote to keep doing so.” Indeed, on Ohio voter “filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months.”
When Bob Frantz of Cleveland’s radio station WTAM 1100 invited Brunner’s Spokesman Jeff Ortega and Communications Director, Brian Clark on separate occasions to discuss safeguards to prevent voter fraud, each Democrat hung up (Ortega here, Clark here). The Democrats could only respond to Frantz’s query about excluding Republican observers from monitoring early votes by claiming there was no statute mandating such observers. When he pressed them on the fairness of their actions, they stuck to their talking points, then hung up.
At least the Ohio press is taking notice (see, for example, this Columbus Dispatch editorial) but will the national media cover pro-Obama vote fraud in the Buckeye State . . . and around the nation?
You can bet that if a Republican official in a swing state were acting like Brunner and her staff, the national media would take notice.
Notice how its always states with entrenched Democrats that have the problems with voter fraud. But then they always blame it on Republicans? Oh, thats right, its our fault that it gets noticed and our fault when we try to put a stop to it.
This is ridiculous ………….. and it won’t covered by the MSM. Wasn’t there some recent news that there were more registered voters in Indianapolis than there are people? What’s the old Chicago saying, “Vote early, vote often.” And, Obama is from where?
Haven’t you heard, LCRW? It’s “whining” when Republicans to point out the corrupt, illegal behavior of Democrats.
I actually think ACORN is a huge problem for democrats-it may not hurt them badly as far as losing elections this cycle, but the ACORN stuff is wide spread across several jurisdictions and in several different states. It is tough to blame it on some bad apple underling-the problem is systemic and endemic to the organization-the bad apples are at the top of this barrel, and rot the whole thing down to the bottom.
I have decided Ohio is pretty much screwed this election-they apparently chose a Secretary of State who promised ethics and integrity but really only meant she would be getting back at the republicans by cheating, since cheating when done by democrats is apparently okay.
And if I hear one more person say that this is just registration fraud and that it doesn’t matter, because it doesn’t actually equate to “voter” fraud, and that fraud is unlikely to make a difference anyway, I think I will gouge my eyes out. If there is fraud at any level of the election proccess is corrupts the whole thing-too bad ACORN and the democrats don’t care as long as they win.
OT: Democrat who replaced Mark Foley pays off Mistress with $121K. Boy, I am sure glad Nancy Pelosi cleaned up that Culture of Corruption.
How’s that for irony and hypocrisy? And of course there is the lying.
Bet it doesn’t get the play that Foley’s got since it didn’t involve anything gay.
Actually, just me, it wasn’t the gay, it was the Republican part.
See “Frank, Barney” and “Studds, Gerry” for further examples.
Actually, just me, it wasn’t the gay, it was the Republican part.
See “Frank, Barney†and “Studds, Gerry†for further examples.
I won’t argue with that at all.
The D after your name is the best inoculation you could ever have against charges of corruption, malfeasance, or hypocrisy.
given frequent references to Obamabots as ‘fascist’, I guess it should be no surprise that they act like fascists.
This is a terrible campaign, and poor McCain trying to be civilized, running against Mr. Smooth. Think about it. We say that Obama is ‘opaque’, that we don’t know what he believes, we don’t know what he will do in the future. Keep in mind, however, that it is by his ACTIONS we know him, and these actions are violent, anti-democratic, disrespectful of law and of the US Constitution. That is, fascism.
I am reading David Horowitz’s “Radical Son” by the way. And interesting read. As is Eric Hoffer’s “True Believer.” Both describe our present troubles, and not in a good way.
Isn’t ACORN required by law to turn in all registration cards (not that the GOP ever points that out)? The answer’s yes, kids, in most states. Doesn’t ACORN flag suspected bad registration cards for the government to check (not that the GOP ever points that out)? Again, yes.
Have any of these bad reg. cards resulted in a single proven bad vote in this election? Aren’t we talking voter registration fraud and not vote fraud? I hope every person who filled out and submitted these cards to ACORN is punished to the extent of the law, but I haven’t heard a any evidence that a single bad ballot has yet been cast as as a result of these cards, so where is the “vote fraud” the GOP is trying to gin up in their pre-McCain loss, Obama-delegitimizing efforts?
Have any of these bad reg. cards resulted in a single proven bad vote in this election?
I guess we won’t know since the Democrat Ohio Attorney General wouldn’t allow Republican poll-watchers to observe during early voting.
And I guess we’ll never know how many fraudulent absentee ballots will be cast by ACORN community organizers using fraudulent credentials.
And since the Democrats oppose any requirement to show ID to vote as “disenfranchisement,” once registration happens, its very, very easy to vote.
And by the time the court cases over challenges play out, the election will be over.
“It’s not vote fraud, it’s just registration fraud,” is, by the way, the current blast-fax talking point.
Furthermore, how registration fraud can lead to voter fraud is nicely demonstrated by this example.
“All-in-all, a great person, a great woman, just a wonderful person” is how Alexis Guidry described her mother to Local 2 Investigates.
“As far back as I can remember, they’ve always voted in the election,” Guidry said of her parents.
The March 2008 Primary was no exception. Voting records show Alexis’ mom, Gloria Guidry, cast her ballot in person near her South Houston home.
“It was just very shocking, a little unsettling,” said Alexis Guidry.
It’s unsettling because Gloria Guidry died of cancer 10 months before the March Primary.
Meanwhile, perhaps torrentprime can comment on the Obama campaign’s latest, which is telling college students to register in the state where they’re attending college — while still remaining registered for absentee ballots in their home state.
But of course, torrentprime’s not going to denounce that. He still wants us to believe that people who are making fraudulent registrations by the thousands are going to just not use them.
#10: “Have any of these bad reg. cards resulted in a single proven bad vote in this election? Aren’t we talking voter registration fraud and not vote fraud? I hope every person who filled out and submitted these cards to ACORN is punished to the extent of the law, but I haven’t heard a any evidence that a single bad ballot has yet been cast as as a result of these cards, so where is the “vote fraud†the GOP is trying to gin up in their pre-McCain loss, Obama-delegitimizing efforts?”
torrentprime, go right ahead excusing flagrant violations of federal law committed by the members of your party–we know you don’t think it’s a big deal because for liberals like you, the “ends” always justifies the “means.” We expect that from you. Just please spare us the insufferable bullshit that you want these people “punished to the full extent of the law.” No. You don’t.
Have any of these bad reg. cards resulted in a single proven bad vote in this election?
How would we know? The election hasn’t been held yet and it’s not practical to audit every single line in the voting register (or whatever they have in Ohio).
ACORN and vote fraud has been news for years (it was new when I lived in KC a few years back). What city is it where voter registration EXCEEDS 100 percent of eligible voters?
I think it’s time that we consider federalizing national elections. One primary (I’m sick and tired of having to hear about Iowa caucuses… I mean, really); one voting system (Okla has been running an excellent mark-sense scanning system for years: fast results+paper trail); one registration system; and voter ID.
And no more “voter registration drives”. If someone can’t find the time sometime in the next four years to drag themselves to some gubmint office (tag office, license bureau, city hall, police station,
welfare office) to sign the damn card then they just don’t need to vote. What is the benefit to the commonweal of allowing totally uninformed and uninterested people to vote?#10
Aren’t you just making excuses? Wasn’t it the liberals who made up allegations of voter fraud back in 2000 to distract from the fact that Algore was having Florida election laws changed on the spot? Not to mention trying to toss out the votes of our troops overseas? Isn’t it true that of the allegations that FHP troopers stopping black voters was found to be a lie?
Don’t you find it the slightest bit peculiar that we can have a-holes from the U.N. monitor our elections, but Republicans can’t?
Wouldn’t you feel more comfortable if the Failure in Chief, who legitimized Chavez’s elections just stay home and STFU?
I hope every person who filled out and submitted these cards to ACORN is punished to the extent of the law,
Spare us your BS. We know better.
… I wish someone would point them out to me, because to this day, I am still trying to figure out what they were!
I can think of a whole bunch of stuff he fucked up, and a whole bunch of accomplishments of the Republican congress that he takes credit for, but when it comes to him accomplishing anything significant? eh, not so much.
It’s a travesty that people like jennifer Brunner are allowed to hold public office. Our entire democracy depends on fair elections. Voter fraud should be vigorously prosecuted by the authorities, with automatic jail time for offenders … and that includes voter fraud perpetrated by high ranking officials as well. Perhaps if stiff jail sentences were imposed, organizations like Acorn would think twice about defrauding the system, and defrauding the American people. This issue once again shows how important trust is … and, that’s why I would rather trust a man who would not sell out his fellow prisoners, even during 5 years of torture, than to trust a man who betrayed a 20 year friendship, for personal ambition.